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Canada has surpassed the United States as the most expensive country for treating winter sports injuries, at an average cost of £7,267. The average claim in Canada has risen by 25 per cent or £ ...
Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin says she will return to World Cup alpine skiing on January 30, exactly two months after she was injured in a hard fall.
Dr. Karen Latimer, mother of five active kids, investigates the best ways to keep kids safe from skiing, sledding and winter sports injuries -- because there are more of them than you might think ...
All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Olympic Games), though many ski ...
The women's overall competition in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is currently scheduled to consist of 35 events in four disciplines: downhill (DH) (8 races), super-G (SG) (8 races), giant slalom (GS) (9 races), and slalom (SL) (10 races). [1] As of 18 January 2025, two races (a super-G and a giant slalom) have been cancelled during the ...
The most common types of ski injuries are those of the knee, head, neck and shoulder area, hands and back. Ski helmets are highly recommended by professionals as well as doctors. Head injuries caused in skiing can lead to death or permanent brain damage. [22] In alpine skiing, for every 1000 people skiing in a day, on average between two and ...
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United States' Lindsey Vonn goes through the course in her mind ahead of a women's Super-G, at the Alpine Ski World Championships, in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.